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Russia Adoption
 Country & Culture
Country: Russian Federation
Location: Eastern Europe and Asia
Area: 6,592,800 sq mi (17,075,400 sq km)
Population (2005 est.): 143,420,309
Capital: Moscow.
Languages: Russian, Tartar, Ukrainian, Chuvash, Bashir, Mordvin and Chechen.
Religions: Christianity (mostly Russian Orthodox), Roman Catholics, Protestant, Buddhism, Judaism.
People/Ethnicity
The great majority of the people are Russians, but there also are some 70 smaller national groups living within its borders. Most of the population is concentrated in a great triangle in the western, or European part of the country.
Geography
Extending nearly halfway around the Northern Hemisphere and covering much of eastern and northeastern Europe as well as the whole of northern Asia, Russia has a maximum east-west extent, along the Arctic Circle, of some 4,800 miles (7,700 kilometers) and a north-south width of 1,250 to 1,850 miles. There is an enormous variety of landforms and landscapes, which occur mainly in a series of broad latitudinal belts. Arctic deserts lie in the extreme north, giving way southward to the tundra and then to the forest zones, which cover about half of the country and give it much of its character.
Government
Russia is a federal multiparty republic with a bicameral legislative body (Federal Assembly comprising the Federation Council and the State Duma). Head of state is President.
Source: Russia. (2006). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved November 24, 2006, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online: http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9109504
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